Widow Torrey and the old lover in a village match
Sam Turner visits Widow Torrey to urge selling her farm and joining him as husband and father to her daughter. Ellen Stevens, once his love, recognizes him. Weatherby surfaces as a rival, then romance shifts to the widow’s sister. The farmer torments, secrets unravel, and a quiet wedding closes the tale.
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Lortsinai
Torres
Sam Turner
Sam
Sway
Torrey
Ellen Stevens
Sue
Timmelt
Isiew
Enoch Weatherby
Weatherby
Slater
The Last Supper Masterpiece and Its Painted Truth
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts how Leonardo da Vinci sought the perfect faces for Jesus and Judas for the Last Supper. Pietro Bandinelli, a choir boy, provided Jesus’s face after years of study, only to later resemble Judas when missteps led to a fall from grace.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Man
Italy
Leonardo A Vinci
Jesus
Christ
Pietro Bandinelli
Judas
Pietro
Rome
Brooklyn
Eagle
Lost Joke Imitator of a Witty Man Ends with Lapsus Linguae
Quarles recalls a dinner tale where a guest laughs at a botched roast beef spill. The waiter trips dropping tongue and greens, prompting the host to quip lapsus linguae. A Broadway merchant among the guests relishes the wit, later reenacting a similar faux pas with a roast.
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Quarles
New York Giants of Finance
Jorially
Malaprop
Dawn
Snagging Salmon on the Chileat River Described
A historical note explains an angling method as an Indian angler used a poke tipped with a barbless tea hook to snag salmon from the Chileat river. The fisherman walked along the bank, teased the hook through the stream, felt a strike, jerks the rod, and hauled the fish onto the bank, a technique called snagging salmon.
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Chileat
Counterfeit Bill Snafu Over Shoes Purchase
A man buys shoes from a shoemaker and pays with a counterfeit ten dollar bill. The shoemaker changes it, gives seven dollars in change, then returns to his shop. News of the fake bill prompts a neighbor to claim the ten is counterfeit. The shoemaker later passes off five good dollars, a two dollar bill, and three one dollar bills in change. The shoemaker’s loss totals six dollars and seven dollars in bad money.
Ring leaves black mark on finger in odd scene
Hazel Nutt notes the dirt under the ring causes a black mark while Vanilla Beane-How remarks the ring itself is not to blame. The exchange appears in a Chicago Tribune caption style dialogue.
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Hazel Nutt
Chicago Tribune
For Sale One Threshing Outfit With Engine And Cows
For sale one complete threshing outfit comprising a Buffalo single cylinder 20 H. P. I. H. C. engine and accompanying farm equipment. Also available are fresh cows. Services and terms to be arranged locally.
For sale: Rext-Seven room house by A Mikeche Co
Inquiries at A Mikeche & Co store for a seven room house offered with full particulars. Also advertised are Bismarck best wines and liquors by bottle or gallon and all kinds of bottle beer.
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A. Mikeche & Co
Bismarck
Proposal For Heating And Plumbing At The Poor Farm Wahpeton
A proposal for heating and plumbing at the Poor Farm in Wahpeton Richland County is described. The document notes an auditor and county involvement with Capody Bros presenting the plan. The legible text references the Poor Farm and county offices and hints at a formal submission for approval or funding.
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Wahpoton
Richland County
Menand
Sesi
Capody Bros
Audd
Epee
No Wonder He Fled Story in a London Restaurant
A tall shy young man enters a London restaurant and seeks solitude near the middle of the room. He blushes as he orders while a buxom woman with seven children arrives, drawing attention as the head waiter circles the table. The crowd comments on his appearance and age as he inches toward the door.
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London
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Beatrice Tucker
Jack
Kodo
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P. Simonsen
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Jumowog
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Ice Hour
Nonth Dakota
Pantorium
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Opera House
Chas. U. Kirk
Poe
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Eajeten
Geo. E. Wallace
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Wanpeton
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Ulsaker & Finseth
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Mabel P Moll
Carl Kaufmann
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